That really sucks.
When you’re in your mid-60s, of course a bunch of the rock/pop musicians you listened to when you were a kid have passed on. Now it’s starting to happen with the artists I first heard about after I graduated from college. 
Recovering from successful surgery Elvis Costello is recovering from successful cancer surgery. And he’s coming to Atlantic City this fall
Arvid Carlsson, Nobel Prize winning physiologist whose discoveries led to development of drugs to combat Parkinson’s disease.
oh, that guy, 15 pts.
For absolutely no reason, I was thinking of that very Star Trek episode this morning while laying in bed.
Very coincidental, yet I’ve never thought of that episode before.
Frank Sinatra’s first wife, Nancy Barbato, mother of Nancy Sinatra, just passed. She was 101.
My aunts used to see her pushing Nancy around in a baby carriage when Frank was just starting to make it.
I always get that episode mixed up with the Terri Garr one.
Former NHL goalie Ray Emery drowned while swimming Sunday morning Ex-NHL goalie Ray Emery dies while swimming
Question for discussion: Does Nancy Barbato, Frank Sinatra’s first wife, qualify as a celebrity?
But she is pointless anyway, being she was over 100.
Yes, but does she qualify as a celebrity?
I’d say so. Her death was reported across the media board. What else to do you need?
For any searchers in this thread the URL references Roger Perry.
Broadway great Gary Beach dead at 30 points. Best known for his Tony award winning portrayal of Roger DeBris in The Producers. He also played the role in the movie. I was lucky enough to see the original cast on Broadway and he was fantastic. The play worked much better than the movie.
Adrian Cronauer, disc jockey and inspiration for the movie Good Morning, Vietnam, dead at age 79.
Olympic figure skater Dennis Ten was murdered on the streets of his home town, Almaty, Kazakhstan, at the age of 25.
Mai Tai Sing,pioneering Chinese-American actress.
Shinobu Hashimoto, screenwriter for Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and numerous other films, leaves no points on the table as he exits this mortal coil at the age of 100.
Wrestler and lucha film star Max Linares aka Rayo de Jalisco Sr. dies at 85.